That still doesn't prove Macro evolution like in the big bang theory which states
How did you pack so much misinformation in one sentence?
The Big Bang theory has nothing to do with the origin of life.
"Macro" and "micro" evolution are artificial labels and are practically meaningless.
Artifical or not, the classic example of "macro" evolution is speciation, which we have watched happen in the wild and in the lab.
What you asked for was proof of the fact of evolution. The term "evolution" just means that the genetic characteristics of a population change over time. This is easily demonstrated -- witness drug resistance diseases. Therefore, evolution is a fact, QED.
Especially that bit after I installed it when it crashed immediately on startup and I had to download the 1.1 patch to run the game at all. Oh, and the fact that when they ported it from the console, they forgot that they could make the save system less annoying.:) Still fun though.
As I understand it, the heliopause is the point at which the solar wind (particles coming from the sun) can no longer expand due to the pressure of particles coming the other way.
Think of it like this: Say you have a very large fan blowing air in one direction, and a long way away you have a lot of small fans blowing the opposite way. At some point, the wind from the large fan will exactly balance the wind from the small fans. That would be the... aeropause, or something.:)
In about 300 years an advanced extraterrestrial civilization will come across it and think "Ha, what a primitive civilization, THIS is the extent of their technology...
Nah, there's the old joke about how hundreds of years from now, Earth finally receives the long-awaited message from another civilization. The people wait anxiously while the scientists translate the message. Finally the results are announced. "We have found your artifact," the message says, "Send more Chuck Berry."
I realize all this is moot now, but for future reference....
how do I convert UT to New York time?
EDT is UT - 4 EST is UT - 5
I don't know the constellations (sigh). I do have a powerful pair of binoculars, but I don't know where to point them. Any clues?
You can find north by imagining a line running through the two stars at the end of the bowl of the Big Dipper. Extend the line, and the first fairly bright start you hit is Polaris (the North Star).
In the summer, in the N. hemisphere, three bright stars are prominent much of the night: Deneb, Vega, and Altair. They are called the "Summer Triangle". Altair is the one at the sharpest angle in the triangle. Deneb is the one in the constellation that looks like a cross (really Cygnus the swan). Vega is the other one.:)
If you wish to use a second application you must first reinstall Windows 98, then install the other application you wish to use. Or, get another computer to run your second application.
The same applies to hardware, of course. You never ever change hardware in a Windows 98 system. You install the new hardware and then reinstall the operating environment from scratch.
Oh bullshit. I'm running 98SE at home. Hardware-wise I've changed modems twice, added more memory, and added a DVD combo drive. I have at least a half dozen games installed plus most of the standard MS crud, the DVD software, the image software that came with my digital camera, etc, etc. And I've never had to reinstall.
In my case it's because 98 (SE) isn't that flaky. All I use my home PC for is playing games, mudding, email, newsgroups, the occasional small Word document, watching DVDs, and dowloading pr0... I mean, surfing the Web. And I almost never have a problem, although the JRE 1.4 for Mozilla makes it go slightly wacky sometimes. But then, it makes my NT box at work go wacky too.
I realize I am probably in the minority with regards to stability and 98, but my answer to why I don't switch is that I have no reason (and I HAVE a copy of XP).
For a good example of what I'm talking about, go get the Big Trouble in Little China [imdb.com] DVD. (As a/. reader you should own a copy of this film anyway, so if you don't have it you should buy it immediately or risk the loss of your nerd credentials.)
Well, that's much better than my plan of just buying movies that I liked and were good.:)
Lets see, the history of slashdot and most of computer-geekdom has always ribbed Intel for maintaining backwards compatibility with processors more than a decade old.
They're not backward compatible with processors a decade old. They're backward compatible with a processor two years old; which itself was backward compatible with the one two years before that; etc.
Sure, x86 is great due to all the applications out for it, but in all honesty why can't we move away from it?
A con or two: - gamespy is not, in my experience, well organized for bringing like minded players toghether. This is especially significant for AD&D. - There doesn't seem to be a way to maintain state between modules. Which means npc characters kind of forget stuff that happened before.
- Pathfinding is awful. I don't expect it to solve a maze for me, but it would be nice if characters didn't get blocked by a lamp post. - Ranged weapons pretty useless unless you have the point-blank shot feat or whatever it's called - Inventory management far too tedious - Annoying interface issues, eg, it would be nice if the inventory/map/etc. windows were actually, you know, windows, so that you could move them out of the way - Pie menu graphics pop up in front of other things on the screen (at about the same contrast), so picking the right option is sometimes a hassle - Long load pauses when moving between areas - By default, you can't manage your minion's inventory and the AI is lame (I know there are scripts to fix this) - The manual is garbage, probably in an effort to get you to buy the strategy guide:-b - While the 3D stuff looks good, the inventory graphics look rather cartoonish
Creation scientists claimed for a while the possibility of the speed of light decreasing. They were hammered about this from every quarter. Now it seems that it might be credible.
First off, "creation scientist" is an oxymoron. Secondly, creationists require speed of light decay at rates much, much, much higher than might be indicated. Third, they ignore that you can't just decrease the speed of light without screwing up a lot of other constants and physical laws. If the speed of light had really varied as much as the creationists want, we wouldn't be here to argue about it.
A lot of science done seems to be based on the assumption that the universe is billions of years old, and that the earth itself is around 4.5 billion years old (subject to change).
These are not an assumptions. These are figures arrived at from observation and experiment.
Indeed, a lot of dating methods such as c14 rely on assumptions that can't be verified
You don't use C14 to measure the age of rocks. You use C14 to measure the age of things that were once alive.
At any rate, STOP treating creationists like children.
We'll stop treating you like children when you stop putting your fingers in your ears, jumping up and down, screaming, "I'm not listening, that's not the way it works".
As for your twenty problems, I suggest you just go read the talk.origins archive for starters. You can at least find the answers to the questions that actually have something to do with evolution. For the ones that are really physics questions, and the ones that are outright lies, you will have to go elsewhere. The local public library would be a good start.
so if light were significantly faster near creation, it could reach earth in 6000-7000 years. But at current speeds it would appear to have taken much more time.
The problem is, you can't muck with the speed of light without mucking with a lot of other things. If the speed of light were really that fast 6000 years ago, stars probably couldn't have formed anyway.
"This software smells"
I just installed this software on my PC and when I tried to rip my Star Wars Episode II CD all these photos of Natalie Portman started popping up all over my screen and then my CD drive opened up and out poured hot grits right down my pants. I am very afraid to rip my new Nelly CD now.
In addition the the article the Post also has an editorial today which explains how President Mugabe has run the country into the ground, including the agricultural industry.
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How did you pack so much misinformation in one sentence?
Everything about the game screams quality.
:) Still fun though.
Especially that bit after I installed it when it crashed immediately on startup and I had to download the 1.1 patch to run the game at all. Oh, and the fact that when they ported it from the console, they forgot that they could make the save system less annoying.
I learned from GTA 3 is that you can never outrun the cops.
No, but you can shoot them and take their cars.
As I understand it, the heliopause is the point at which the solar wind (particles coming from the sun) can no longer expand due to the pressure of particles coming the other way.
:)
Think of it like this: Say you have a very large fan blowing air in one direction, and a long way away you have a lot of small fans blowing the opposite way. At some point, the wind from the large fan will exactly balance the wind from the small fans. That would be the... aeropause, or something.
In about 300 years an advanced extraterrestrial civilization will come across it and think "Ha, what a primitive civilization, THIS is the extent of their technology...
Nah, there's the old joke about how hundreds of years from now, Earth finally receives the long-awaited message from another civilization. The people wait anxiously while the scientists translate the message. Finally the results are announced. "We have found your artifact," the message says, "Send more Chuck Berry."
I realize all this is moot now, but for future reference....
:)
how do I convert UT to New York time?
EDT is UT - 4
EST is UT - 5
I don't know the constellations (sigh). I do have a powerful pair of binoculars, but I don't know where to point them. Any clues?
You can find north by imagining a line running through the two stars at the end of the bowl of the Big Dipper. Extend the line, and the first fairly bright start you hit is Polaris (the North Star).
In the summer, in the N. hemisphere, three bright stars are prominent much of the night: Deneb, Vega, and Altair. They are called the "Summer Triangle". Altair is the one at the sharpest angle in the triangle. Deneb is the one in the constellation that looks like a cross (really Cygnus the swan). Vega is the other one.
Why not ask why we use base 10 for counting? Why not base 2, or 7, or 60? Just as meaningful of a question.
:)
No really. Unless you have 2 or 7 or 60 fingers.
If you wish to use a second application you must first reinstall Windows 98, then install the other application you wish to use. Or, get another computer to run your second application.
The same applies to hardware, of course. You never ever change hardware in a Windows 98 system. You install the new hardware and then reinstall the operating environment from scratch.
Oh bullshit. I'm running 98SE at home. Hardware-wise I've changed modems twice, added more memory, and added a DVD combo drive. I have at least a half dozen games installed plus most of the standard MS crud, the DVD software, the image software that came with my digital camera, etc, etc. And I've never had to reinstall.
The question that must be asked is: why?
In my case it's because 98 (SE) isn't that flaky. All I use my home PC for is playing games, mudding, email, newsgroups, the occasional small Word document, watching DVDs, and dowloading pr0... I mean, surfing the Web. And I almost never have a problem, although the JRE 1.4 for Mozilla makes it go slightly wacky sometimes. But then, it makes my NT box at work go wacky too.
I realize I am probably in the minority with regards to stability and 98, but my answer to why I don't switch is that I have no reason (and I HAVE a copy of XP).
For a good example of what I'm talking about, go get the Big Trouble in Little China [imdb.com] DVD. (As a /. reader you should own a copy of this film anyway, so if you don't have it you should buy it immediately or risk the loss of your nerd credentials.)
:)
Well, that's much better than my plan of just buying movies that I liked and were good.
Lets see, the history of slashdot and most of computer-geekdom has always ribbed Intel for maintaining backwards compatibility with processors more than a decade old.
They're not backward compatible with processors a decade old. They're backward compatible with a processor two years old; which itself was backward compatible with the one two years before that; etc.
Sure, x86 is great due to all the applications out for it, but in all honesty why can't we move away from it?
You just answered your own question.
A con or two:
:-b
:)
- gamespy is not, in my experience, well organized for bringing like minded players toghether. This is especially significant for AD&D.
- There doesn't seem to be a way to maintain state between modules. Which means npc characters kind of forget stuff that happened before.
- Pathfinding is awful. I don't expect it to solve a maze for me, but it would be nice if characters didn't get blocked by a lamp post.
- Ranged weapons pretty useless unless you have the point-blank shot feat or whatever it's called
- Inventory management far too tedious
- Annoying interface issues, eg, it would be nice if the inventory/map/etc. windows were actually, you know, windows, so that you could move them out of the way
- Pie menu graphics pop up in front of other things on the screen (at about the same contrast), so picking the right option is sometimes a hassle
- Long load pauses when moving between areas
- By default, you can't manage your minion's inventory and the AI is lame (I know there are scripts to fix this)
- The manual is garbage, probably in an effort to get you to buy the strategy guide
- While the 3D stuff looks good, the inventory graphics look rather cartoonish
But that's enough for now.
This is just sad.. Going from making $125k to making crepes.
:-b
I know it's happening more and more. Why did I go to college for 6 years?
What's sad is that people expect to make $125K right out of college.
What I find interesting is that the author suggests keeping the rest of the world out, as opposed to keeping the rest of the world from getting in
:)
Um. Isn't that the same thing?
*sigh* RIP, you old crank
Ahhh, Alexander Abian.
Creation scientists claimed for a while the possibility of the speed of light decreasing. They were hammered about this from every quarter. Now it seems that it might be credible.
First off, "creation scientist" is an oxymoron. Secondly, creationists require speed of light decay at rates much, much, much higher than might be indicated. Third, they ignore that you can't just decrease the speed of light without screwing up a lot of other constants and physical laws. If the speed of light had really varied as much as the creationists want, we wouldn't be here to argue about it.
A lot of science done seems to be based on the assumption that the universe is billions of years old, and that the earth itself is around 4.5 billion years old (subject to change).
These are not an assumptions. These are figures arrived at from observation and experiment.
Indeed, a lot of dating methods such as c14 rely on assumptions that can't be verified
You don't use C14 to measure the age of rocks. You use C14 to measure the age of things that were once alive.
At any rate, STOP treating creationists like children.
We'll stop treating you like children when you stop putting your fingers in your ears, jumping up and down, screaming, "I'm not listening, that's not the way it works".
As for your twenty problems, I suggest you just go read the talk.origins archive for starters. You can at least find the answers to the questions that actually have something to do with evolution. For the ones that are really physics questions, and the ones that are outright lies, you will have to go elsewhere. The local public library would be a good start.
so if light were significantly faster near creation, it could reach earth in 6000-7000 years. But at current speeds it would appear to have taken much more time.
The problem is, you can't muck with the speed of light without mucking with a lot of other things. If the speed of light were really that fast 6000 years ago, stars probably couldn't have formed anyway.
I say half-decent only because it was on a small (27") TV
:)
Well, for me, 27" is not a small TV. In fact, I think that's rather large for a TV. So I guess I can do without HDTV then.
Dang, it's old, and so am I!
:-b
Pfft. They also have a Commodore 64. Ask me how depressed I was when I saw that.
I liked #21 better:
"This software smells"
I just installed this software on my PC and when I tried to rip my Star Wars Episode II CD all these photos of Natalie Portman started popping up all over my screen and then my CD drive opened up and out poured hot grits right down my pants. I am very afraid to rip my new Nelly CD now.
Follow the 'highlights' link in this story.
Scroll down to 1985.
In addition the the article the Post also has an editorial today which explains how President Mugabe has run the country into the ground, including the agricultural industry.
I mean i takes up like a good two inches at the top of my screen and I run at 1024x768.
You can collapse the toolbars by clicking in the space at the left edge of the bar.
and in Mozilla I don't know where to put the domain?
:)
Edit --> Preferences --> Advanced --> Proxies?
Just guessing... never tried it myself.
The IA64 instruction set is much more innovative than the old x86. Linux in particular benefits from smart compilers
You misspelled "omniscient".
Hope this helps!